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This Butter Candle Will Melt Your Mind

We've all experienced the sheer terror of having the electricity go out, plunging us into what seems like never-ending, soul-sucking darkness, only to realize that our set of Pinterest-inspired tea candles in a mason jar provide absolutely no useful light.

What's a person to do?

No worries — just become an instant MacGyver and make your own candle from a stick of butter and some toilet paper. It sounds a little like a fire hazard, but this YouTuber proves that DIY can always come in handy.

The 10 Most Viral YouTube Videos of 2012

1. KONY 2012

Invisible Children, a movement seeking to end the conflict in Uganda, created the film Kony 2012. They hoped it would accelerate the arrest of Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony, who has been kidnapping and abducting Uganda’s youth for nearly three decades.

With more than 100 million views in six days, Kony 2012 became the most viral video in history.

The movement, however, ended quite strangely. The video's creator, Jason Russell, was detained in the Pacific Beach neighborhood, with charges of public drunkenness and lewd behavior.

2. Gangnam Style

Gangnam Style in a nutshell:

PSY, a South Korean rapper, singer and dancer, jams out for four minutes to an aggressively hypnotic techno track, while surrounded by horses, beautiful women, a carousel, commuters and old people. He also sings from the toilet. So naturally, the video became incredibly popular.

According to Unruly Media, 29 million shares worth of popular. Here's how it got so big.

3. A Dramatic Surprise on a Quiet Square

“A Dramatic Surprise on a Quiet Street,” an ad by TNT, takes place in a “little town in Belgium” in a “square where nothing really happens.” TNT’s ad agency, Duval Guillaume Modem, placed a large red button there and invited passers-by to “Push to Add Drama.”

The ad, which was released on April 11, has been shared over 4 million times.

6. Catch the Ice Dude

This German man didn't make quite the splash he was hoping for, when his attempted cannonball ended with a painful thud.

The diver’s friends shared the entire frozen pool fiasco on YouTube, offering giggles for the Internet and a cautionary tale for ice acrobats.

We hope he feels better. Who wouldn't, after 1.5 million shares?

7. Somebody That I Used to Know

“Somebody That I Used to Know” is a smash hit itself. In fact, it's one of YouTube's most-viewed clips ever — it's been shared over 17 million times.

What we love most about it, though, is the parody and cover culture that it has spawned. Check out a ton of covers and parodies of the song here.

8. Best Job

Right before the London Olympics, Procter & Gamble released an ad praising mothers worldwide, and it's an absolute tearjerker.

The ad features mothers on four continents -- from London, Rio de Janeiro, Los Angeles and Beijing -- and shares their journeys while raising their young Olympians.

In three days, the video received over 700,000 views on YouTube. It has been shared over 2 million times. The original video can be found here.

9. Donna the Deer Lady

Donna the Deer Lady, as she's now known, called up a local Fargo radio station and demanded to know why the Minnesota and North Dakota departments of transportation “allow these deer crossings to be in such high traffic areas.”

She's since learned truth about deer crossing signs, but not before the video was uploaded to YouTube by the radio station. It went wildly viral, hitting almost 2.5 million views in only 10 days. At this point, it has been shared over 1.5 million times.

10. Arrested Drunk Guy Sings Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody'

Robert Wilkinson, a 29-year-old from Edson, AB, was arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for intoxication, and evidently he didn't agree with the charges. After pleading his case in slurred speech, he decided to describe his ordeal by belting out Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody.

Despite his inebriated state, Wilkinson manages to sing the entire song, accompanied by some serious headbanging and air drumming. The performance has been shared over one million times.

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